Lee Miller: Photographs [Hardcover]

Over one hundred of the most outstanding photographs taken by photographer, model, and surrealist muse Lee Miller, published in anticipation of the film? The 110 exquisite photographs...glow in their nuanced black-and-white radiance, from surrealist images to portraits of friends and people [Miller] met on her travels to the ruins of the Blitz and the horrors of the battlefields, hospitals, and death camps, each image dynamically composed, vibrant with defiant humor, arresting juxtapositions, outrage, compassion, and unexpected beauty. [Miller] created images that demand attention. This handsome monograph...collects more than 100 photographs from each phase of Miller's storied career, imagery that affirms the complete ease and mastery of each genre she explored... She had a knack for transforming prosaic objects and moments into startingly surreal visual statements... [A] must-have book. Antony Penrose's magnificent retrospective of Miller's career delivers a comprehensive and intimate portrayal of her remarkable oeuvre to the world. Miller created high contrast, black-and-white photographs that were dramatic, startling and provocative... [This] slim coffee-table book...spans her career from experimental work and fashion shoots to landscapes and portraits to gruesome depictions of war. Gathers some of the most stunning images made by the photographer during her years covering both war and fashionas well as pictures taken of her by members of the avant-garde art world she inhabited. Brings together over 120 works that explore the photographers groundbreaking contributions to the medium. For anyone who has not discovered Lee Millers work, this new edition from Thames & Hudson is an ideal introduction [and] shows us why her work still matters. An impressive collection of more than 100 Miller pictures that Antony Penrose, Lee and Roland [Penrose]'s son, culled from the fashion photography, advertising campaigns, portraiture, and photojournalism with whichl0